Mariam al-Fares (right), her daughter Hanane al-Amine and their friend Fadia Kherbaiti (left), in Hanane's apartment in the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian camp, on April 15, 2026. (Credit: Emmanuel Haddad/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Mariam al-Fares lets out a long sigh followed by muffled sobs as she sits down. “The discs… it’s unbearable pain,” the elderly woman with deep-set features said on April 15. She spends most of her time lying down in the small apartment of her daughter, Hanane al-Amine, located in the dense maze of the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.It is a respite for the grandmother, originally from Shaqra, a village in southern Lebanon near the border, which she fled on the night of March 1–2 under heavy Israeli fire. At first, she found refuge in a school in downtown Beirut with her son, daughter-in-law, and their child, before settling in the camp — despite its location in an area that Israel had ordered evacuated.“I’m sick; all the shouting, the lack of privacy — it was no longer possible,” she says,...
Mariam al-Fares lets out a long sigh followed by muffled sobs as she sits down. “The discs… it’s unbearable pain,” the elderly woman with deep-set features said on April 15. She spends most of her time lying down in the small apartment of her daughter, Hanane al-Amine, located in the dense maze of the Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.It is a respite for the grandmother, originally from Shaqra, a village in southern Lebanon near the border, which she fled on the night of March 1–2 under heavy Israeli fire. At first, she found refuge in a school in downtown Beirut with her son, daughter-in-law, and their child, before settling in the camp — despite its location in an area that Israel had ordered evacuated.“I’m sick; all the shouting, the lack of privacy — it was no longer...
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